oss4lib-docster

O'Reilly has announced a P2P conference in San Francisco next February and
has its call for participation out. I always think it's a good idea to get
library applications some visibility through meetings like this. Anyone up
to presenting Docster? They're also interested in metadata, so that might
be another hook.
kc
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Karen Coyle wrote:
O'Reilly has announced a P2P conference in San Francisco next February and
has its call for participation out. I always think it's a good idea to get
library applications some visibility through meetings like this. Anyone up
to presenting Docster? They're also interested in metadata, so that might
be another hook.
They invited me to speak, though details haven't been worked out yet. It
would be great to have others there too, we could share the stage as
needed.
Though it wouldn't be as interesting to talk about something that
doesn't exist as the alternative...
-dc

unfortunately, I've got to save up $$ for pre-planned trip with my
wife & then teh O'Reilly OSS conference in the summer.
mark
On 31 Oct 00, at 10:52, Daniel Chudnov wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> O'Reilly has announced a P2P conference in San Francisco next February and
> has its call for participation out. I always think it's a good idea to get
> library applications some visibility through meetings like this. Anyone up
> to presenting Docster? They're also interested in metadata, so that might
> be another hook.
>
>
> They invited me to speak, though details haven't been worked out yet. It
> would be great to have others there too, we could share the stage as
> needed.
>
> Though it wouldn't be as interesting to talk about something that
> doesn't exist as the alternative...
>
>
> -dc
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Rael Dornfest wrote:
I know I've been rather silently lurking on this list, but I am organising
the metadata track for the conference and would love to be one of the
representatives of this project, if you'll have me ;-)
That'd be terrific, and not just 'cuz it's your show. :)
Btw we've starting poking around from the Yale end to see if we can secure
some basic funding to host a one-day organizing symposium here in March or
so. The goal would be to gather a critical mass of content and services
people in one room and define a proper sandbox for experimentation. In
other words, we'd be looking for representatives of publishers, software
houses, libraries, .gov types, etc., to gather around in a single room and
say "Okay, let's try some of these things out in the short term to test
what might work for community."
It would have to include a technical session discussion various
architectures and such, although that would likely not be the focus of
expertise in the room (which would hopefully be instead more
administrative on balance). It occured to us that if we could pull off
such an event in March, the folks on this list who are hammering out more
technical bits could meet in a BOF session at/before/after the ORA p2p
session out west in February. For such a session we could actively call
for presentations from folks who've built up variations on this theme,
then collectively evaluate what we've seen and see if we can draw any
conclusions.
The output of the session out west could be to provide at least a basic
set of recommended technical principles, if not an actual protocol or API,
which would be reported on at the March event out east.
This is how things work, right? Code from the west, content and money
from the east? At least that's what I keep reading. ;)
Folks, what do you think? Rael, do you think there might be a way to
carve out some space for a docster BoF at or near the conference?
-Dan